Bleeding Cool’s Best Comic Panels of 2014

This is certainly a Bleeding Cool tradition worth upholding, bringing together the chosen best comics panels of the year from our site writers. From the just plain bizarre to the hilarious and emotive, this year had it all and some of the finest creators working in the medium really shine even brighter when you take a close-up look at what moments they manage to create in single panels. Contributors to this list include Rich Johnston, Hannah Means-Shannon, Christine Marie, Josh Hechinger, Buzz Tippett, Christopher Helton, and Nikolai Fomich.

Here are Bleeding Cool’s Best Comic Panels of 2014:

Rich Johnston’s choices are:

Afterlife With Archie #6 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacassa and Francesco Francavilla

Multiversity #1 by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado

Avengers: AI. #6 by Sam Humphries and Valerio Schiti

Cryptozoic Man #3 by Walter Flanagan and Bryan Johnson

Hawkeye #16 by Matt Fraction and Annie Wu

New 52: Futures End #0 by Brian Azzarello and Ethan Van Sciver

Chew #39 by John Layman and Rob Guillory

Superior Foes Of Spider-Man #6 by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber

The Bunker #1 by Joshua Fialkov and Joe Infurnari

Harley Quinn #3 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Chad Hardin

Batwoman #28 by Marc Andreyko and Jeremy Haun

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight #8 by Alex de Campi and Gary Erskine